Word: nee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since the theater's arena stage has no orchestra pit, Conductor Thomas Nee had to direct his 30 musicians behind a scrim curtain at the rear of the set. He followed the action over stereophonic earphones, delivered his cues to a closed-circuit TV camera that the cast monitored on two concealed screens...
...instructions from Washington, U.S. Ambassador William Attwood broke off the talks. To save the lives of the hostages, the 600 men of Belgium's crack Regiment Para-Commando, led by a stocky, balding Africa hand, Colonel Charles Laurent, 51, would have to live up to their motto: Nee lactantia Nee Metu (Neither Boasting nor Fearing). They...
President Bert S. Cross of the 3M Co. - nee Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing - called up a vice president to ask a question: "Say, just how many divisions do we have now?" The answer is 21, and the otherwise precise president should be forgiven for not knowing, because his company has been going and growing like sixty. Sales have tripled since 1955, and last week Cross announced that volume for this year's first nine months jumped 10%, to a record $664 million...
...SUZANNE FARRELL (nee Roberta Sue Picker), 19, was president of the New York City Ballet Fan Club in Cincinnati just five years ago. "Now I practice right next to Maria Tallchief," she says. "I can't believe it!" She started dancing at eight to overcome her "tomboy habits," has since blossomed into a softly lyrical dancer, marvelously expressive in the pas de deux to Tchaikovsky's Meditation. Says Balanchine: "She is an alabaster princess; you couldn't design a better figure...
Such incidents were bad enough, but perhaps even worse was a 48-hour disruption of construction at the Cape Kennedy (nee Canaveral) space complex, where 3,500 workers refused to cross picket lines set up by the strikers. The railroad has a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to haul heavy building materials to the cape. As a result of the picketing, 30 projects worth $200 million were closed down, including construction of the site where the Saturn rocket moon shot will be assembled...